Facet joint injections with cortisone have been offered as a treatment for mechanical low back pain for at least 60 years. More recently however, this practice has been becoming increasingly controversial on both clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness grounds.
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This is a brief summary of the 2016 NICE guideline for the management of chronic low back pain
Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain (Part 1) Read More »
Commentary on the new IASP definition of pain
What is the Definition of Pain? Read More »
Primum non nocere – first do no harm. The first principal of medicine
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Ever since my student days, when first introduced to the concept of sympathy versus empathy, I have to confess that I have never been able to fully and deeply grasp what these terms actually mean.
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